ACT Aspire Math: How Many Red Chopsticks Should Be Green?
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Leslie is going through her utensils for her upcoming Chinese food holiday party. She finds that she has 10 red chopsticks and 5 green chopsticks for a total of 15 chopsticks. If she wants two-fifths of the chopsticks to be red, how many of the red chopsticks should she exchange for green ones?
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the chopsticks to be read how many of the red
chopsticks should she exchange for green ones Red and green
sounding a lot like christmas here Well it appears that
leslie does not quite know how chopsticks work since an
even number of chopsticks will leave one unfortunate gas just
jabbing randomly into his or her food But leslie thinks
she will be more prepared for her party if she
can arrange the color of some of her chopsticks So
that's what we have to solve for and poke her
party manners What Leslie has fifteen chopsticks and ten out
of fifteen or red She wants to fifth to be
red So do the current chopsticks do the Job Well
the fine 2 fifths of fifteen convert to fifth ce
into a fraction there with a denominator of fifteen Well
since five times three is fifteen in california and in
beijing well we can multiply both the numerator and the
denominator by three to arrive at an equivalent fractions We
got to fifth times three thirds and that gets us
six fifteen Translate that fraction teo mean that leslie wants
six red chopsticks out of fifteen total chopsticks right Since
she currently has ten red chopsticks well she needs to
exchange four of them So the answer is c there
for green ones to achieve her lofty chopstick goals and
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